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Julia Glenday: /* Intended uses & development focuses summary */

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Intended uses & development focuses summary

Julia Glenday: /* Modelling tool capabilities summary */

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Modelling tool capabilities summary

Julia Glenday: /* Modelling tool capabilities summary */

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Modelling tool capabilities summary

Julia Glenday: /* Model structure overview by tool: spatial & temporal scales */

2023-11-27T12:55:48Z

Model structure overview by tool: spatial & temporal scales

Julia Glenday: /* Intended uses & development focuses summary */

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Intended uses & development focuses summary

Julia Glenday: /* Modelling software tool background & versions covered */

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Modelling software tool background & versions covered

Julia Glenday at 12:53, 27 November 2023

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Julia Glenday: /* Modelling software tool background & versions covered */

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Modelling software tool background & versions covered

Julia Glenday: /* Model spatial & temporal scale overview by tool */

2023-11-24T13:07:22Z

Model spatial & temporal scale overview by tool

Julia Glenday: /* Intended uses & development focuses summary */

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Intended uses & development focuses summary

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 * Coupled hydraulic channel model & flooding processes
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-| style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |'''Intended applications:'''
+| colspan="6" style="background: #FFFFFF;vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |<big>  </big>'''Intended applications:'''
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 | style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |''Water balance estimation''

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 ! scope="col" style="background: #CEE6F2; width:8em" |MIKE-SHE
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-| colspan="6" style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |'''Climate (rain & PET)'''
+| colspan="6" style="background: #FFFFFF;vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |<big>  </big>'''Climate (rain & PET)'''
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 | style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |Spatially variable across model domain
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 | style="background: #F5FCFF; vertical-align: center; text-align:center;" |'''yes'''
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-| colspan="6" style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |'''Land cover & change'''
+| colspan="6" style="background: #FFFFFF;vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |<big>  </big>'''Land cover & change'''
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 | style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |Processes explicitly linked to land cover
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 | style="background: #F5FCFF; vertical-align: center; text-align:center;" |'''yes'''
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-| colspan="6" style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |'''Peak flows & flooding'''
+| colspan="6" style="background: #FFFFFF;vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |<big>  </big>'''Peak flows & flooding'''
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 | style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |Max daily or subdaily peak flow estimation
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 | style="background: #F5FCFF; vertical-align: center; text-align:center;" |'''yes'''
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-| colspan="6" style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |'''Reservoirs, dams & channel flow modification'''
+| colspan="6" style="background: #FFFFFF;vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |<big>  </big>'''Reservoirs, dams & channel flow modification'''
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 | style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |Reservoirs explicitly modelled
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 | style="background: #F5FCFF; vertical-align: center; text-align:center;" |''(limited)''
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-| colspan="6" style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |'''GW representation & GW-SW interactions'''
+| colspan="6" style="background: #FFFFFF;vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |<big>  </big>'''GW representation & GW-SW interactions'''
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 | style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |Dynamic, 2-way, GW-SW exchange
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 | style="background: #F5FCFF; vertical-align: center; text-align:center;" |'''yes'''
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-| colspan="6" style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |'''Wetlands & riparian zones'''
+| colspan="6" style="background: #FFFFFF;vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |<big>  </big>'''Wetlands & riparian zones'''
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 | style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |Wetland processes included
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 | style="background: #F5FCFF; vertical-align: center; text-align:center;" |'''yes'''
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-| colspan="6" style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |'''Modelling other related catchment processes'''
+| colspan="6" style="background: #FFFFFF;vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |<big>  </big>'''Modelling other related catchment processes'''
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 | style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |Sediment movement
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 | style="background: #F5FCFF; vertical-align: center; text-align:center;" |no
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-| colspan="6" style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |'''Uncertainty & parameter calibration'''
+| colspan="6" style="background: #FFFFFF;vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |<big>  </big>'''Uncertainty & parameter calibration'''
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 | style="vertical-align: vertical-align: center;" |Functions/routines for batch runs, uncertainty, parameter sensitivity, & calibration

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 * Only MIKE-SHE has a fully coupled hydraulic model, allowing it to model channel-floodplain interactions in more detail, including the impact of changes in channel size, shape, depth of incision, etc. Other tools can represent some aspects of overbank flooding and the fate of the flood water, but this is limited to their wetland and riparian zone modules.</br>
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 | style="background: #F5FCFF; vertical-align: top" |''<small>(None documented for the modelling system as whole, only for certain process options within it. The learning curve for its use and computing power required can pose practical limitations to its application )</small>''
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 A summary table of some key modelling capabilities across the tools is presented [[#Modelling tool capabilities summary|below]].
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	A set of commonly used modelling tools in South Africa was reviewed for the [[Model inter-comparison study\|WRC “Critical catchment model inter-comparison and model use guidance development” project]].		A set of commonly used modelling tools in South Africa was reviewed for the [[Model inter-comparison study\|WRC “Critical catchment model inter-comparison and model use guidance development” project]].

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-These software tools have different development histories and somewhat different focuses, however all have adapted over time, adding features that allow them to be used in more contexts and have generally overlapping intended applications (see [[#intended use - Table Anchor|table below]]).
+These software tools have different development histories and somewhat different focuses, however all have adapted over time, adding features that allow them to be used in more contexts and have generally overlapping intended applications ([[#Intended uses & development focuses summary|see table below]]).
 The structural options and design of each tool reflect the intended applications as well as the balance struck by the developers between potentially competing concerns and goals, such as achieving parsimony, including detailed representation of land cover differences to estimate the impacts of change, maintaining ease of use of the tool, facilitating quantification of model output uncertainty, ensuring applicability in data limited contexts, etc.
-For these reasons, despite the overlap in general intended uses, the tools offer some fairly different modelling strategies (see [[#basic structure - Table Anchor|structure overview]] below). This impacts how they can be applied in specific settings (documented in more detail [[Model units & connections|here]]). For example, all the tools are capable of modelling the impacts of land use change to some degree, however WRSM-Pitman and SPATSIM-Pitman place greater limitations on the number and types of land cover that can be explicitly modelled compared to the other tools.
+For these reasons, despite the overlap in general intended uses, the tools offer some fairly different modelling strategies ([[#Model structure overview by tool: spatial & temporal scales|see table below]]). This impacts how they can be applied in specific settings (documented in more detail [[Model units & connections|here]]). For example, all the tools are capable of modelling the impacts of land use change to some degree, however WRSM-Pitman and SPATSIM-Pitman place greater limitations on the number and types of land cover that can be explicitly modelled compared to the other tools.
-A summary table of some key modelling capabilities across the tools is presented [[#capabilities - Table Anchor|below]].
+A summary table of some key modelling capabilities across the tools is presented [[#Modelling tool capabilities summary|below]].
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-== Model spatial & temporal scale overview by tool ==
+== Model structure overview by tool: spatial & temporal scales ==
-The table below gives a very basic overview of the type of model structure that can be built in each tool.  More details about the model structure options across tools are presented [[Model units & connections|here]].
+The table below gives a very basic overview of the type of model structure that can be built in each tool.
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 ==Modelling tool capabilities summary==
 '''Important note: this capabilities summary table indicates what is ''technically possible'' within the modelling tools, but it does ''not'' cover the ''practicality and ease-of-use'' of the different features across each tool.''' </br>